Rick is the VP and General Manager for DXC Technology, the world’s “leading independent, end-to-end IT services and solutions company.” In charge of the company’s global application development division, Rick oversees product development and testing, growth and financial execution, and overall strategy.
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My name is Rick Sullivan. I work for a company called DXC Technology. I serve there as vice president and general manager for our applications development, software development business across the company. We are the incorporation of what was Hewlett Packard Enterprise services. About 110,000 people, about an 18 billion dollar book of business along with CSC Corporation and together that forms about 175,000 person company. Annually about 25 billion so new, new launch, new startup, but certainly a rich history of experience. I'm real pleased and fortunate to have responsibility for the companies direction for our applications development and our software business. Our software development business. That encompasses everything from the company strategy, who we're partnering with, the services that we're delivering to our customers. We are a services based company. It's all about delivering service to our customers and it is all about delivering value. And so, every day we're focused on how to we differentiate our value and how do we make a difference with that. And so, having real pulse on the industry, where the industries headed, what are the demands that we're seeing and hearing from our customers globally and across many different industries. Incorporating that into the next generation of services that we're developing. The innovation and the thought leadership that we can bring and take to our customers. That's all about what keeps me busy on a daily basis. You know there's a busy good day and busy bad day. I'll start with the challenging busy day. That's a lot of meetings. Back to back to back meetings. And it may be a lot of sitting and such. It may be working on strategy, which is great, it's generally utilizing a different part of the brain. It could be dealing with day to day problems and situations that we're grappling with in support of our customers. A great day, is usually when I'm out in the field and I'm with customers. I may be traveling to their locations. I may be going to speak at a forum. I may be meeting with industry analysts. So the interaction, because that's what goes and feeds kinda the sense and respond to know what are the pressure points that they have. What are the needs that they have? And that makes everything that we do real.
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